Crimes Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme - Worker Screening) Regulations 2019 (F2019L01397)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Crimes Regulations 2019

3   After section 20

Insert:

20A Exclusions from Divisions 2 and 3 of Part VIIC of the Act - exclusions relating to work with persons with disability

For the purposes of sections 85ZZGI, 85ZZGJ and 85ZZGK of the Act, the persons and bodies mentioned in column 1 of an item in the following table, and the laws mentioned in column 2 of an item in the table, as in force from time to time, are prescribed to the extent that those laws:

(a) are NDIS worker screening laws (within the meaning of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013); and

(b) relate to persons working, or seeking to work, with people with disability (within the meaning of section 85ZZGM of the Crimes Act 1914).

 

Prescribed persons, bodies and laws

 

Item

Column 1

Person or body

Column 2

Law

1

Screening Agency appointed under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Worker Checks) Act 2018 (NSW)

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Worker Checks) Act 2018 (NSW)

2

Central assessment unit established under the Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 (SA)

Disability Inclusion Act 2018 (SA)

3

Registrar appointed under the Registration toWork with Vulnerable People Act 2013 (Tas.)

Registration toWork with Vulnerable People Act 2013 (Tas.)

4

Commissioner mentioned in section 17 of the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 (ACT)

Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 (ACT)